Quotes from Miguel Ruiz

Just as we would like to be perceived without assumptions or past prejudices, we can allow their unique qualities to impress us all over again . . . expecting nothing, and accepting them as they are.

All humans are artists, all of us. Every symbol, every word, is a little piece of art. From my point of view, and thanks to our programming, our greatest masterpiece of art is the use of a language to create an entire virtual reality within our mind.

Humans are born with awareness; we are born to perceive the truth, but we accumulate knowledge, and we learn to deny what we perceive. We practice not being aware, and we master not being aware.

And if you challenge your beliefs just by asking yourself if what you believe is true, you may find out something very interesting: All your life you tried to be good enough for somebody else, and you left yourself last. You sacrificed your personal freedom to live according to somebody else's point of view.

Detached and attentive to life's command, I feel only freedom and the unreserved love that arises when fear has exhausted itself.

The real us is pure love; we are Life.

La felicidad, igual que el sufrimiento, es una elección.

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do. Even if others lie to you, it is okay. They are lying to you because they are afraid.

Son los momentos en los que al dejar de juzgar surge la pura armonía.

El amor es incondicional. El miedo está lleno de condiciones.

Someone can intentionally send emotional poison, and if you don't take it personally, you will not eat it. When you don't take the emotional poison, it becomes even worse in the sender, but not in you.

Be skeptical because most of what you hear isn't true. You know that humans speak with symbols, and that symbols aren't the truth. Symbols are only the truth because we agree, not because they are really the truth.

You lie to yourself just to make yourself right. Then you make assumptions, and one of the assumptions is "My love will change this person." But this is not true. Your love will not change anybody. If others change, it's because they want to change, not because you can change them.

If you take your happiness and put it in someone's hands, sooner or later, she is going to break it. If you give your happiness to someone else, she can always take it away. Then if happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love, you are responsible for your happiness. We can never make anyone responsible for our own happiness

Cuando honres estos cuatro acuerdos juntos, ya no vivirás más en el infierno. Definitivamente, no. Si eres impecable con tus palabras, no te tomas nada personalmente, no haces suposiciones y siempre haces lo máximo que puedas, tu vida será maravillosa y la controlarás al cien por cien.

You can make this agreement today: I choose to honor The Four Agreements.

But now you are aware that our opinions are not the truth; they're just a point of view.

The truth doesn't need you to believe it; the truth simply is, and it survives whether you believe it or not. Lies need you to believe them. If you don't believe lies, they don't survive your skepticism, and they simply disappear.

Let us proceed, keeping in mind that fear makes us deaf to truth.

You are the unknowable. You are here just to be in this moment, in this dream. Being has nothing to do with knowledge. It's not about understanding. You don't need to understand. It's not about learning. You are here to unlearn, and that's it, until one day you realize you know nothing.

A menudo, suponemos que nuestra pareja sabe lo que pensamos y que no es necesario que le digamos lo que queremos.

Todas las cosas están vivas y cambian continuamente, de modo que, en ocasiones, lo máximo que podrás hacer tendrá una gran calidad, y en otras no será tan bueno.

No vemos la verdad porque estamos ciegos. Lo que nos ciega son todas esas falsas creencias que tenemos en la mente.

The Voice of Knowledge by don Miguel Ruiz* Ruiz transforms complex human issues into simple common sense. He tells us that all of our emotional suffering is because we believe in lies — mainly about ourselves.